Exercises in wood-working, with a short treatise on wood; (1890)
Sickels, Ivin. [from old catalog] · New York, D. Appeton and company · leaf 139
3. A plain newel is shown in Fig. 4. The section at a shows thestructure through the base and the way in which it is fastened tothe riser, 5, and the string, c, the tread being cut away to allow itto pass down to the floor. Fig. 5 shows the balusters; the shorter, «, coincides with theface of the… … 138 ELEMENTS OF EOUSE-BUILDING. Exercise 35.—Laying out and sFiaping the Hand-rail. The hand-rail should always have a gradual and graceful changefrom one direction to another. In Fig. 1, a 5 represents a tread,b d Hi riser, and a d the pitch, which is the direction of the hand-rail ; c a point on…
Woodwork (Manual training) · Wood
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